ANZAC Day 2012

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Chantrell - Adelaide, Australia on Monday, April 23, 2012 - 06:11 pm:

Good luck to all of the Kiwi & Aussie diggers and their families honouring ANZAC Day. WW1 is nearly 100 years ago, Gallipoli is 97 years ago this year. We still remember our "Kiwi" cousins from "over the ditch".

Our Prime Minister Julia Gillard is currently in Singapore commemorating the fall of Singapore.

Did anybody see the sickening act of extremists on the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Benghazi? Call me old fashioned, but once you have offered the extreme sacrifice of life you should be left alone in peace. I wonder what the old diggers must be thinking and asking the question "Was it worth it?"

Good news this week that our troops will be home from Afghanistan in a year. God be willing, may all of the troops from all over the world come home safely and in one piece.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By M Philpott on Monday, April 23, 2012 - 06:38 pm:

David, being an American I'm not quite sure what you said but I understand the part about the troops coming home and pray that they do.
Mike


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Chantrell - Adelaide, Australia on Monday, April 23, 2012 - 09:19 pm:

ANZAC Day is like your Veteran's Day. On 25th April 1915 the ANZAC's (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps) attacked Gallipoli in Turkey with huge losses.

We now celebrate ANZAC Day every year here in Australia. May all of the RSL Halls &diggers have a great day.

For those attending a Dawn Service tomorrow it looks like showers here in Adelaide. My son is a L/Cpl in the Army Legion Cadets and is on night vigil along with many others at the Adelaide Cenotaph.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Monday, April 23, 2012 - 11:02 pm:

Hey David, the vandals were ignorant children that have no knowledge of history. What they did does nothing to diminish the honour of the boys buried there.
Best
Gus


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By George Clipner-Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 12:13 am:

Bless the men from OZ


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Chantrell - Adelaide, Australia on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 01:02 am:

Bless all the servicemen & servicewomen, from the past and present, from all around the world that have, and continue to do so, that answer the call when necessary...thank you. Lest We Forget.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bede Cordes, New Zealand on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 04:43 am:

Good on ya' David.

anzac

Anzac Cove 2008

I'm off to the dawn service in the morning.
And what happened at Benghazi was disgusting.

Lest we forget.

Regards,
Bede


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dane Hawley Near Melbourne Australia on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 08:35 am:

Thanks David. You beat me to it, I had collected a couple of photographs to go on here for Anzac Day, but yours are even better.

Although we observe what is now called 'Remembrance Day' and used to be called 'Armistice Day' that is, the 11th of November, Anzac Day is in lots of ways a much more sacred day. It is a public holiday with some interesting traditions. The first Anzac Day involved parades in the capital cities, just one year after the Gallipoli landings. Here is a photo from 1916 taken in Melbourne.



The day is one set aside to remember those that served in all wars, but naturally there is something of a bias to WW1. Old soldiers (otherwise known as 'diggers') get together, catch up with their mates and remember good times and bad.

This photo has no-doubt been posted before, but it somehow, to me , epitomizes something of the Anzac spirit of keeping on going and not giving in, but having a bit of fun if at all possible.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Stokes on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 03:39 pm:

Michelle and I have just returned from the Dawn Service in central Wellington. The main address this year was from the French ambassador to NZ (the French were also at Gallipoli).

As usual, the national anthems of Australia and New Zealand were played.

It is wonderful to see that, each year, the turnout of people gets bigger and bigger. It is inspiring to see the great number of teenagers, and great numbers of much younger kids as well.

"We will remember them"!

John Stokes
New Zealand


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